Feb 27 Buildparts’s 3D Printed Miller Car

We managed to get a very close look at an incredible 3D print. It’s so good you’d never know how it was made.

The 1927 Miller 91 replica was built by CIDEAS, or by their other name, BuildParts.com, a commercial 3D print service. It’s a 40% scale model of the original and you’d swear it was a real vehicle - until you ask how it was made.

Most of the vehicle was in fact 3D printed. But what a print!

580 hours of 3D printing

740 cubic inches of print material

130 hours of post-processing

The company wanted to illustrate their capabilities in a variety of 3D print technologies, and did so by involving no less than four different 3D print methods: